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Score ONE for the consumer; probably the last one!

Yesterday I read an inspiring and well written (by Zach Dundas) story in the Willamette Week (Will-Lam-It as in Will-Lam-It-Damn-it; not: Willa-met) newspaper (local Portland, Oregon based).

I actually read it in the papyrus edition rather than my usual on-line habit!

Having read the story, I'm certain that Ms. Palmquist would be the first to suggest that it was more than a "One" woman "Qwest" and so I wanna post the names of some of her cohorts here on BloggerRadio, coz they all represent heros to the Joe & Jane Sixpak's out here.

Cheryl Ettlin, the "no-guff daycare mom" and her husband.

Christine Tracey, "the 50-year-old aerospace-engineer-turned-lawyer who rode shotgun."

Bruce Wynne - "roofer".

Honorable mention: Judge Jerome LaBarre

While the story is largely about the specifics of one consumer's battle against being gouged by a giant telecom, it includes a warning for us all.

A real-world warning about the effects of recent tort reform legislation, and how this was a last-stand for the American Consumer. So read the entire piece, and be afraid. Be very afraid about how the Bush administration has waged war on the American consumer and the middle class; one nick, one cut, one slash at a time. Death by a thousand cuts, so-to-speak.

Something else that I found revealing in this story, is a listing (partial?) of lawsuits and settlements against giant telecom corporation Qwest. If Qwest is TYPICAL of the amount of legal troubles instigated by corporate giants war on customers, how can any consumer, and voter anywhere, continue to tolerate the Bush administration's, and Republican bias in favor of corporations over the middle class, average American consumer???? It's nuts.

Look for this report, it's author, his newspaper, and the cast of characters to be added to BloggerRadio's "Wall-of-Fame" later today (DONE).

This story highlights the primary reason(s) that I no longer carry a cell phone, and won't again until the companies in that business pull their heads outta their asses.

Score ONE for the consumer; probably the last one!

Yesterday I read an inspiring and well written (by Zach Dundas) story in the Willamette Week (Will-Lam-It as in Will-Lam-It-Damn-it; not: Willa-met) newspaper (local Portland, Oregon based).

I actually read it in the papyrus edition rather than my usual on-line habit!

Having read the story, I'm certain that Ms. Palmquist would be the first to suggest that it was more than a "One" woman "Qwest" and so I wanna post the names of some of her cohorts here on BloggerRadio, coz they all represent heros to the Joe & Jane Sixpak's out here.

Cheryl Ettlin, the "no-guff daycare mom" and her husband.

Christine Tracey, "the 50-year-old aerospace-engineer-turned-lawyer who rode shotgun."

Bruce Wynne - "roofer".

Honorable mention: Judge Jerome LaBarre

While the story is largely about the specifics of one consumer's battle against being gouged by a giant telecom, it includes a warning for us all.

A real-world warning about the effects of recent tort reform legislation, and how this was a last-stand for the American Consumer. So read the entire piece, and be afraid. Be very afraid about how the Bush administration has waged war on the American consumer and the middle class; one nick, one cut, one slash at a time. Death by a thousand cuts, so-to-speak.

Something else that I found revealing in this story, is a listing (partial?) of lawsuits and settlements against giant telecom corporation Qwest. If Qwest is TYPICAL of the amount of legal troubles instigated by corporate giants war on customers, how can any consumer, and voter anywhere, continue to tolerate the Bush administration's, and Republican bias in favor of corporations over the middle class, average American consumer???? It's nuts.

Look for this report, it's author, his newspaper, and the cast of characters to be added to BloggerRadio's "Wall-of-Fame" later today (DONE).

This story highlights the primary reason(s) that I no longer carry a cell phone, and won't again until the companies in that business pull their heads outta their asses.